Red Carpet Diary
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Red Carpet Diary is an entertainment news feature covering the films, red carpet events and celebrity scene at the Toronto International Film Festival
(TIFF). The video, audio, and photo content is released daily through the duration of the festival on television, radio, online, and mobile apps around the world. Among the media carrying Red Carpet Diary TIFF coverage are Yahoo.com, HollywoodReporter.com, TorontoLife.com
, FashionMagazine
.com, HelloMagazine.com, theStar.com, Hollyscoop.com, FashionTelevision
, CP24, CMT Canada
and iTunes
.
Red Carpet Diary began as an internationally syndicated radio feature and had its first broadcast on September 10, 2005. In 2007, Red Carpet Diary expanded to video. Red Carpet Diary now runs one of the largest press operations at TIFF.
The Red Carpet Diary segments are between two and five minutes in length, with each piece focusing on one film playing at the festival. Stars, directors, and writers are interviewed on the red carpet at the film premieres and longer form interviews are conducted in studio. Every day Red Carpet Diary releases content to sites and blogs all over the world (like MeFeedia and BlogTO) making coverage available within hours of the premieres.
Hosts of Red Carpet Diary have included Mary Kitchen, Joan Kelley, Cheryl Brown, Nalini Sharma and Travis Dhanraj. Contributing photographers include Korby Banner and James Helmer. In 2010, Susie Kent, veteran of Canadian entertainment programming (ET Canada, CityTV
) was appointed Executive Producer of the program.
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
(TIFF). The video, audio, and photo content is released daily through the duration of the festival on television, radio, online, and mobile apps around the world. Among the media carrying Red Carpet Diary TIFF coverage are Yahoo.com, HollywoodReporter.com, TorontoLife.com
Toronto Life
Toronto Life is a monthly Canadian magazine about entertainment, politics and life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Toronto Life also publishes a number of annual special interest guides about the city, including Home Decor, Stylebook, Eating & Drinking, Real Estate and Weddings. Established in 1966,...
, FashionMagazine
Fashion (magazine)
Fashion is a Canadian fashion magazine published by St. Joseph Media. Established in 1977, it is currently based in Toronto , publishes 10 issues a year and has a total readership of 1.85 million .The magazine covers international, national and local fashion and beauty trends and news...
.com, HelloMagazine.com, theStar.com, Hollyscoop.com, FashionTelevision
FashionTelevision
FashionTelevision, also known as FT, is a Canadian-produced special interest show focusing on fashion. The show,created by Jay Levine in 1985 is hosted by Jeanne Beker...
, CP24, CMT Canada
CMT Canada
CMT is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel which airs country music and family-orientated general entertainment programs in the form of music videos, award shows, concerts, sitcoms and more...
and iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
.
Red Carpet Diary began as an internationally syndicated radio feature and had its first broadcast on September 10, 2005. In 2007, Red Carpet Diary expanded to video. Red Carpet Diary now runs one of the largest press operations at TIFF.
The Red Carpet Diary segments are between two and five minutes in length, with each piece focusing on one film playing at the festival. Stars, directors, and writers are interviewed on the red carpet at the film premieres and longer form interviews are conducted in studio. Every day Red Carpet Diary releases content to sites and blogs all over the world (like MeFeedia and BlogTO) making coverage available within hours of the premieres.
Hosts of Red Carpet Diary have included Mary Kitchen, Joan Kelley, Cheryl Brown, Nalini Sharma and Travis Dhanraj. Contributing photographers include Korby Banner and James Helmer. In 2010, Susie Kent, veteran of Canadian entertainment programming (ET Canada, CityTV
Citytv
Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...
) was appointed Executive Producer of the program.